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Designer Sam A. Cardella collaborated with the architectural firm Interactive Design Corporation to create a Rancho Mirage, California, house for Myrna Kaplan. Above: Brushed-steel walls in the living area provide a backdrop for a granite fireplace and a 1930s Dan mask from Ivory Coast. “Part of my job was to showcase her collection,” Cardella says of the African art that Kaplan owns. (April 2006)